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Whitechapel Frontman Phil Bozeman Weighs In on Haters in the Metal Community
In a new video posted by Whitechapel's Phil Bozeman, the frontman takes on the topic of haters in the metal community and specifically how he approaches the negativity aimed at his own band. For example, Whitechapel received a fair amount of hate through social networking after their recent tour with Asking Alexandria and Bozeman addresses this topic head on.
Bozeman defended their decision to tour with Asking Alexandria, explaining, "Some of you may know we recently toured with Asking Alexandria and a lot of the fans were like 'What the f---guys, why would you tour with such a stupid band.'" He continued, "See, now that's the sh-- that pisses me off. You want to know why? Because it was a great tour for us to broaden our fanbase and tour for our fans and potentially gain new ones."
He didn't leave it at that though. "We got up on stage and played the same exact songs that are on our albums and put on the same show we would have on any other tour," Bozeman said. "People acted like we were a different band and that we sucked because we toured with a band that was odd for us to tour with. How does that make any sense?"
He then offered up his own explanation, sharing, "I literally think that some people have it programmed into their brain to like a certain band for a few years and then hate them for any reason possible. If my favorite band put out an album I didn't like, who cares! It doesn't mean they suck now, just don't listen to that album if you don't like it."
Bozeman also touched on the topics of social networking and how it allows anonymous haters to run their mouths without having to back it up. He also encouraged music fans to like whatever bands and music artists they want to like and to not to be influenced by those around them.
Check out the full commentary in the video above to hear Bozeman's thoughts all while playing a game of 'COD: Black Ops 2.'


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- The XJ Ultimate represents the pinnacle of the luxurious, innovative XJ experience with heightened levels of opulence for rear-seat passengers
- Two individually tailored rear seats are trimmed in semi-aniline premium natural leather with power adjustment and recline, lumbar support, massage function and climate controls
- A rear business table, machined from solid aluminium with piano black trim, powers into position at the touch of a button
- A pair of bespoke champagne flutes resides in a dedicated storage area beneath the powered table
- A champagne chiller between the rear seats cools the bottle to the perfect temperature and automatically presents it when the cabinet is opened
- A full-length, leather-trimmed centre console features phosphor blue accent lighting and stowage areas to extend the car's business usability
- Each rear-seat passenger is provided with an iPad® and keyboard, housed and charged in dedicated leather-trimmed docks in the rear of the front seats
- A 15-channel, 20-speaker surround sound system engineered specifically for the XJ by British audio specialists Meridian gives an unparalleled audiophile listening experience
- Rear-seat entertainment package with twin headrest-mounted screens and wireless headphones
- Exclusive interior finishes including Herringbone veneer, machined aluminium and bespoke LED lighting
- To underline its purpose in ensuring that passengers remain cosseted at all times, the XJ Ultimate features revisions to the suspension to optimise rear ride compliance
- The first 20 XJ Ultimate models will be finished in Celestial Black, but customers can choose to have their car colour-matched to any shade of their choice
- Discreet external detailing and badging differentiates the Ultimate from other XJ variants
- Unique 20-inch 'Maroa' forged alloy wheels feature both technical grey and highly polished finishes
- The XJ Ultimate is the first Jaguar to be announced that will be available with a new 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol engine
- The XJ Ultimate can also be specified with Jaguar's existing 5.0-litre V8 supercharged petrol engine, and its 3.0-litre V6 turbocharged diesel. All powertrains drive through eight-speed transmissions
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The flagship Jaguar XJ ushered in a new interpretation of the company's established reputation for dramatic design and – with its lightweight aluminium architecture – responsible performance. Now, the XJ Ultimate focuses on two further Jaguar hallmarks: innovation and luxury, extending the model's emotive appeal.
Based exclusively on the long-wheelbase XJ, the interior changes applied to the Ultimate focus on the rear accommodation, extending the car's limousine remit to provide a fully-appointed luxury business class experience for the most discerning of global customers. The XJ Ultimate offers the appointments of a private jet in a package to suit a wide range of requirements.
A full-length, leather-trimmed centre console separates the two individually tailored rear seats which feature power adjustment, ventilation, massage and lumbar functions. A table, machined from solid aluminium with piano-black and chrome detailing, rises up from the centre console at the touch of a button to provide a working area, its role supplemented by the provision of two third-generation iPads® with wireless keyboards that are housed in bespoke leather-trimmed docks in the rear of the front seats.
Switching the focus from business to pleasure is the bespoke champagne chiller mounted between the two rear seats. This cools the bottle to what experts agree is the perfect temperature before 'presenting' it forwards when the chiller is opened. Two specially commissioned champagne flutes reside in a purpose made cabinet beneath the centre table.
A full rear seat package with twin headrest screens and wireless headphones completes the experience in combination with a new 20-speaker surround sound in-car entertainment system developed by British audio experts Meridian.
To underline its purpose in ensuring that passengers remain cosseted at all times, the XJ Ultimate features revisions to the suspension to optimise rear ride comfort, with no compromise to the car's breadth of dynamic ability.
The exterior detailing of the XJ Ultimate offers discreet clues to the model's figurehead status with sculpted lower air intakes chromed to match the grille, polished stainless steel oval exhaust pipe finishers, unique dual-surfaced alloy wheels and subtle 'Ultimate' badging.
The XJ Ultimate is available with Jaguar's existing 5.0-litre V8 supercharged petrol engine, its powerful and efficient 3.0-litre V6 turbocharged diesel, and a new 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol unit, all driving the rear wheels via an eight-speed transmission.
The Jaguar XJ introduced a mouldbreaking coupé design ethos to its class, taking Jaguar's established principle of long, unbroken feature lines and applying them to a decidedly 21st century form. Dramatically different from its competitors, the all-aluminium XJ captures the essential Jaguar design elements of elegance, muscularity, sleekness and strength.
The detail changes applied to the XJ Ultimate serve to subtly enhance the inherent rightness of the car's design, making it clear that this is the luxurious flagship of the range.
The lower front air intakes are reshaped and chrome finished, matching the powerful Jaguar grille, while LED daytime-running lights underline the assertively shaped headlamps.
The 20-inch Maroa forged alloy wheels are unique to this model and feature a dual-tone colour scheme. A dark grey, technical finish is applied to the inner surfaces of the spokes which contrasts with the bright, polished surfacing on the outer edges, combining to create an appearance that is both glamorous and purposeful.
Anyone following an XJ Ultimate will be in no doubt that the model is a cut above, as it is distinguished by new oval tailpipe finishers in polished stainless steel that echo the front air intakes and a discreet metal 'Ultimate' badge underneath the 'XJ' nameplate. The 'Ultimate' badging is repeated in the power vents set into the front fenders.
The first 20 Ultimate models made will be painted in Celestial Black, but customers can also order their car in Polaris White – and any colour in between. In addition to an exclusive extended palette of paint colours, including a new 'chromaflare' range, XJ Ultimate customers can order their car colour-matched to any shade of their choosing on provision of a suitable sample for a true bespoke experience.
Jaguar has always prided itself on creating unique cabin environments and the interior architecture of the XJ is like no other, combining graceful and unexpected forms with quality materials that reward the senses with their tactility, visual splendour and luxury.
Unique finish and personalisation
Now, the Ultimate's position as the XJ range's luxury flagship is apparent from the moment the door is opened. A unique wood veneer, crafted using straight ebony, has been formed into a Herringbone pattern with mirror image upper and lower halves separated by a strip of piano black veneer. The Herringbone pattern forms fillets in the doors and at the front of the car runs around the base of the windscreen to create a dramatic feature that mimics the form of classic wooden-hulled power boats. The clock mounted in the dashboard is also unique to the model with a brushed aluminium face, embossed lozenge detail and 'spun' bright finish.
The XJ Ultimate is offered in three interior colourways for the sumptuous leather that covers virtually every surface and is also used for the headlining; Jet on Jet, or Ivory seats and lower surfaces with either Mineral or Bordeaux uppers.
Further personalisation is offered through customers being able to specify the headrests embroidered with a pattern of their choice. The 'Ultimate' intaglio which sits in the centre of the sweep of Herringbone veneer under the windscreen can also be changed to read whatever the owner wishes.
The XJ Ultimate brings a particular focus to the rear seat passengers to create an ambience that carefully balances the requirements of the modern, on-the-move businessperson with certain surprise-and-delight features that underline the XJ's 'work hard, play hard' personality and reward the discerning owner who appreciates the sense of fun with which Jaguar imbues all its products.
Tailored rear seating
In the Ultimate the XJ's standard rear bench has been replaced by two unique and individual seats designed specifically for this model. Elegant, cosseting and ergonomically optimised, the tailored seats are covered in semi-aniline leather which offers a more luxurious and tactile finish and allows the hide to retain its essential qualities of look and feel, complemented by the hand-finished stitching.
The seats feature winged headrests, powered recline and four-way lumbar adjustment functions to allow passengers to achieve the seating position perfect for them. The comfort levels offered by the seats are enhanced through the inclusion of on-demand massage, heating and cooling functions.
The occupant positioned behind the front passenger seat is also provided with a stow-away button that automatically powers the empty chair forwards to increase still further the XJ's generous legroom. The front seats follow the same unique design as the rears and offer identical functions with an additional range of electric movement allowing 20 by 20 adjustment.
The seats are divided by a centre console running along the length of the car. Fully trimmed in soft-grain leather, piano black veneer and chrome, the console houses a number of features exclusive to the XJ Ultimate. At the touch of a button a table machined from a solid piece of aluminium with a gloss black and chrome finish rises up to then be pivoted into position in front of whichever passenger requires its use.
Chilled to Perfection
Raising the table reveals the first of the XJ Ultimate's surprise and delight features, a pair of champagne flutes in a bespoke recess flock-lined in either Mauveine or Jet and lit by phosphor blue ambient lighting. Within the centre console are 'fluteholders', designed specifically for these glasses and machined from solid aluminium.
The flutes are, of course, there for a reason: discreetly integrated between the rear seat backs, covered in soft-grain leather and marked by a chrome Jaguar leaper is a hidden champagne chiller. Lined in the same flock as the champagne flute recess to give the impression of a bespoke suit lining, it holds one standard sized champagne bottle which, when the cabinet door is opened, is effortlessly presented forwards to the passengers. The champagne is kept perfectly chilled at the optimum temperature range of 7°C-10°C.
Rear-seat passengers are also provided with a range of entertainment options to enjoy while sipping their champagne. The XJ Ultimate is fitted as standard with Jaguar's Rear Seat Entertainment package which comprises two eight-inch high-resolution screens mounted on the back of the front seat headrests.
These can display inputs from a number of sources; the DVD player, digital TV tuner or an external media player that can be synced through the Rear Media Interface, which provides USB and RCA connections. Sound can be provided through the wireless headphones, allowing each passenger to watch separate entertainment sources.
The rear seat environment, including the entertainment, is managed by a wireless controller housed in the centre console and which also allows passengers to alter their individual climate zones and seat heating and cooling functions.
Meridian Surround Sound
The XJ Ultimate is also fitted as standard with the latest generation of in-car audio systems. Specifically developed for the XJ by British ultra-premium audio experts Meridian, marking a new partnership for Jaguar, the Meridian Surround Sound System fitted to the XJ Ultimate uses the latest technological developments to deliver music reproduction that is second to none.
Unlike other manufacturers, Meridian designs and manufactures audio systems that combine innovative technology with the most natural of approaches: comparing their musical reproduction to the sound of the original musical performance.
The 15-channel amplifier, 20-loudspeaker system features Meridian's unique digital sound processing technology that allows every person travelling in the XJ Ultimate to enjoy a musical experience that places them in the centre of the sound field. Meridian achieves this through its Trifield technology which creates an all-enveloping sound field that makes each listener feel that the music is exclusively focused on him or her.
Meridian technology achieves a level of natural detail, realism and performance usually associated with speakers eight times the physical volume. Meridian Cabin Correction and Dynamic Volume Control precisely and effortlessly minimise resonances and monitor extraneous noise levels to allow the audio to be unobtrusively maintained at a constant volume in order for it to be perfectly heard whatever the circumstances.
iPad Integration
In addition to the entertainment on offer, the XJ Ultimate also provides a pair of third-generation iPads® with wireless keyboards. The iPads® are housed within specially designed leather-trimmed docks in the rear of the front seats and hidden behind roller doors, also finished in tailored leather. The iPads® are automatically kept charged whenever the ignition is on and also included in the cabinets are wireless keyboards to allow the tablets to be used without being removed from their docks if required.
To underline its purpose in ensuring that passengers remain cosseted at all times, the XJ Ultimate features revisions to the air-sprung rear suspension for optimised ride compliance. While this provides a truly relaxing experience for rear seat passengers, the XJ Ultimate loses none of the model's core dynamic abilities and so is as rewarding to drive as it is to be driven in. The XJ's lightweight aluminium construction means a weight saving over its rivals of as much as 150kg. This of course offers great advantages in terms of agility, acceleration, braking and driver feedback and involvement.
The aluminium architecture also provides benefits in terms of emissions and fuel consumption, allowing the XJ to provide an astonishing balance of performance and frugality from its range of highly efficient, refined and muscular engines.
The XJ Ultimate will be offered with Jaguar's existing and acclaimed 5.0-litre V8 petrol engine in supercharged form, and the equally highly regarded 3.0-litre V6 turbocharged diesel. With 375kW and 625Nm of torque, the supercharged V8 provides astonishingly vivid performance, the diesel V6 offering uncannily smooth and potent progress while returning fuel consumption figures of 7L/100km (EU) on the combined cycle.
The XJ Ultimate will also be offered with a new 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol engine being introduced to the range for the 2013 model year. This engine, which in the XJ Ultimate will produce 250kW and 450Nm, draws on the award-winning technology inherent to Jaguar's V8 and offers similar performance to the naturally-aspirated version of that engine (which is not available in the XJ Ultimate), but with the emissions and fuel economy advantages of a V6.
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Haiti's Devastating Earthquake – One Year Later
It's hard to believe that a year has passed since the horrific earthquake that shook Haiti. After the tragedy, Americans pledged over 1 billion dollars – 32 million dollars by text messages alone. But has it made a difference? You decide.
In this series of compelling composite photos, here are some different locations in Haiti both then, and today.


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The second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch combines our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Christmas party, in one handy package. This year we're basing it the hot theme of realtime streams and the event in London will also feature some of the hottest realtime startups in the world today.
The event will start with registration from 14.00 on December 15 for the seminar programme consisting of keynote presentation, panel discussions and startup pitches followed by TechCrunchPitch! Once the seminar programme has come to an end, it will turn into your very own startup Christmas party, with DJs and entertainment until late.
Do you want to pitch your realtime startup at ChristmasCrunch?
To be considered for the pitch competition you need to email TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher, with a one side of A4 text-only pitch, and also include the URL of your company/project/startup etc on CrunchBase (you can add your company onto it if it is not already there). Use the subject line "TechCrunchPitch". Note: You MUST be on CrunchBase. In your A4 pitch include: The market "problem" you are solving with your startup, your solution, your business model, your competitors, your team and what you're looking for (Seed funding, Angel funding, Series A round, etc). There is no fee for one person from the startup to pitch, as is our policy. Deadline for entry is Friday 27 November. PLEASE NOTE: We give preference to companies coming through the free UKTI pitch training programme, see below.
On 30th November 2009, TechCrunch Europe will be hosting another free Pitch! Workshop sponsorsed by UKTI. It is only open to qualified startups to attend and if you are interested in finding out more information, please email petra(at)twistedtree.co.uk.
Meanwhile, get your tickets here.
14.30 – Keynote
"Where the biggest realtime desktop application goes next"
Iain Dodsworth (TweetDeck)
Iain Dodsworth is the CEO of TweetDeck, a Twitter desktop client. Prior to founding TweetDeck, Iain was a senior flex developer for Prudential Financial, which he joined in June 2007. Before joining Prudential, Iain was a developer at Dashbrook (2006-2007), PriceWaterhouse Cooper (2003-2006), and a Digital Text consultant and developer for BSkyB (200-2002). In 1999, He co-founded and served as CTO for Sirens Communications corp., an internet industry startup based in Palo Alto. Iain holds a BSc. from Sheffield Hollam University in Systems Modeling.
James Whittaker (TweeDeck)
James is UX & UI Architect at TweetDeck. He is an experienced professional web developer who has worked in the defense, banking and consumer sectors over the last 10 years. James specialises in web standards development, usability and interaction design, along with the creation of Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR technologies. He is currently an Adobe Community Expert and an international speaker on the Flash Platform and desktop applications with AIR.
14.50 – Presentation
"The future of realtime sentiment tracking"
Jennie Lees (Festbuzz)
Jennie Lees is the founder of Edinburgh-based FestBuzz, a Twitter sentiment analysis tool which turns microreviews into star ratings. Before bringing sentiment analysis to social media and the real world, Jennie was researching towards a PhD at Cambridge. She has also spent several years at AOL Weblogs Inc writing and leading videogaming blogs, as well as a short spell as a professional gamer with the PMS Clan.
15.10 – Presentation
"Blending cloud with desktop realtime"
Marco Kaiser (Seesmic)
Marco is Director, Engineering at Seesmic. He has worked in the industry for 12+ years as a web and software developer. Marco is the creator of the Adobe AIR application, Twhirl, which began development in the summer 2007 and was subsequently acquired by Seesmic. He's based near Hamburg, Germany.
15.30 – Panel – Realtime Services
Mario Menti (Twitterfeed)
Mario is founder, TwitterFeed, a service to send blog and RSS updates to a Twitter account automatically. He's an online market research expert with 20 years experience in the market research software space, having worked as Solutions Architect for GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.) and SPSS.
Mark Rock (AudioBoo)
Mark Rock is the man behind Audiboo, an innovative mobile application for audio blogging. Stephen Fry, Tony Blackburn & Rory Cellan-Jones are amongst the many people who use it on a regular basis. Mobile is growing, and is more and more important, and Mark will be giving us an insight into the powerful nature of this new technology and the companies plans for the future of audio.
Audioboo emerged out of work that its parent company, Best Before Media, did with Channel 4 in its bid to set up a number of innovative DAB radio stations in 2008.
Mark was previously co-founder of design & technology company, Static 2358 Limited. As well as running a successful broadcast design agency [FilmFour, Channel 4, Sky One and Star TV in Asia], Static owned & operated the interactive TV games Channel, PlayJam, on Sky & Cable in the UK, TPS & Canal+ in France and Cablevision in the US. Static had successful financing rounds with Sky, HSBC and Casenoves before being sold to ITV middleware provider Open TV in 2001 for $60m.
Eileen Burbidge (Investment Director at Ambient Sound Investments)
Based in London, Eileen leads ASI's business development and sources new investment projects. Prior to joining ASI, Eileen held senior leadership roles in business, product, and market development at Yahoo!, Skype, PalmSource, Openwave, Sun Microsystems, Apple and Verizon Wireless. She holds a BS in Engineering Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Roberto Bonanzinga (Balderton)
Roberto is a Partner at Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Europe). Prior to joining Balderton, Roberto spent 15 years working with entrepreneurs in the US and in Europe. Most recently, Roberto acted as an interim CEO for Jambaz and non-executive director/adviser to numerous companies including Jaiku (acquired by Google NASDAQ:GOOG), Mobango, Piczo, Woome and our own portfolio company Pageflakes. He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a European Commission-sponsored MSC in Electronic Information Management from Sheffield University in the UK.
16.10 – Coffee break
16.30 – Keynote
"The future of Realtime Content and News"
Nick Halstead (CEO Tweetmeme)
Nick is the CEO and Founder of fav.or.it, the company behind Twitter meme tracker Tweetmeme. Nick has been in development for 20 years, 15 of which were in the highly competitive games industry. He has a passion for all things technical and is still responsible for development at the 10 person team at fav.or.it.
16.50 – Presentation
"The realtime effect on entertainment content"
David Maher Roberts (The Filter)
David is CEO of The Filter. At the age of 24, he successfully raised the funds to launch Unique, the first student lifestyle magazine, and The Game, a European football magazine. David went on to become the publishing director at Future Games in 2001 where he served as the board director responsible for the entire portfolio of 10 magazines, 2 websites, and 80 employees. After 2 years, he completed the Advanced Management Program (at Ashridge Business School), and then founded Future Plus, a creative agency. From June 2004-December 2006, he also served as the New Media Director for Future's entire European web operations and lead the European launch of GamesRadar.com. After leaving Future, David served as the New Media director at iSporty.com and he was the founder and senior partner of Digital-dna LLP.
17.10 – Presentation
"How Google Wave affects the future of realtime collaboration"
Daniel Tenner (Woobius)
Daniel Tenner is CTO and co-founder of Woobius, a web-based document sharing tool for architects, engineers and designers. This is his second start-up. Daniel spent four years consulting at Accenture with large investment banks. One day, he decided that there were more exciting and fun things to do in the world, and went start-upping instead. He holds a Masters in Physics from Oxford University. He also blogs at danieltenner.com and on various other sites.
17.30 – Panel 2
Panel – Content
Ian Hogarth (Songkick)
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
Alberto Nardelli (Tweetminster)
Alberto is the Co-founder & CEO of Tweetminster, which tracks and measures the pulse of UK politics. He is also the CEO of UnLtdWorld.com an online platform for social entrepreneurs. Previously, he acted as Special Projects Manager at TakingITGlobal, leading the overhaul of creative programmes, which included an online art gallery, a publication and a series of initiatives implemented in a range of cities and aimed at fostering cultural understanding amongst young people.
William Fischer (Twitter Jobsearch)
William is Director of WorkHound, the company behind Twitter Jobsearch. He's also co-founder of DVD Station, Inc., a world-class media/entertainment retail systems company, that introduced the first direct download of movies at retail, built systems deployed by Sony, Barnes & Noble, and Hollywood Video, and launched a multi-state retail chain named 2005 Retailer of the Year. Founder/CEO of Form & Figure Media Inc. and Chase Thompson Publishing. Previous marketing and GM experience at threerings.com, more.com, and Ebates.com. Acknowledged in Chris Anderson's, The Long Tail, as an expert on digital entertainment/search.
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...FreeGamer? No not this time :p It's rather that the Spring RTS engine ran into some trouble with their long overdue 0.83 version and now decided to release 0.84 instead ;)
Along with it comes also a new Zero-K release (0.9), which prompted one of their players to make a nice new trailer in anticipation:
So...that's it for today ;)
P.S.: Check out Zero-K's Planetwars metagame too.
P.P.S.: Also Spring related... someone on their boards is looking for people to take over the development of another quite nice RTS game: Conflict Terra.
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Anti aging tippek természetesen sadie
Anti aging tippek természetesen sadie high-octane semi-sequel to Sam Raimi's cult hit The Evil Dead has nearly eclipsed its predecessor's reputation thanks to an endless barrage of hyperkinetic camera acrobatics, rapid-fire editing and "splatstick" gore effects Nearly the entire storyline of the previous film has been re-shot and presented in a drastically condensed form within the first few minutes: rock-jawed but clueless "hero" Ash Campbell now visits the mountain cabin only with girlfriend Linda played here by Denise Bixler.
Upon arrival at the cabin, Ash discovers the Sumerian Book of the Dead, the ritual dagger and a reel-to-reel tape containing the anti aging tippek természetesen sadie translations of the book's hieroglyphics. The incantations summon an unseen, growling spirit from within the woods, which bursts into the cabin and takes possession of Linda's soul.
Ash is forced to decapitate her with a shovel, after which he buries her in the forest. At first dawn, Ash tries to make his escape, but is promptly set upon by the spirits, given a solid thrashing and nearly possessed himself, saved only by the arrival of sunlight. Cut off from the outside world, Ash is forced to hole up in the cabin and wait for the next demonic onslaught — which arrives sooner than expected, led by Linda's rotting corpse.
After being bitten by Linda's chatty decapitated head, Ash's hand becomes independent of his body and begins pummeling him repeatedly. The story then jumps to a local airport, where the professor's daughter Annie Sarah Berry and her partner Ed Getley Richard Domeier have just arrived with the missing pages to the Necronomicon. They employ a cranky pair of local rednecks, Jake Dan Hicks and Bobbie Joe Kassie Wesleyas guides to lead them through the dense woods to the cabin Driven to the brink of insanity, Ash fires blindly at a noise outside, unaware that the new arrivals are Annie and company.
Bobbie Joe is injured by the gunshot, which incurs the wrath of Jake, who knocks Ash senseless and locks him in the fruit cellar. Believing her father was murdered by Ash, Annie plays the rest of the professor's recording to learn the truth, and legjobb anti aging aknés bőr her possessed mother was buried in the same cellar — and not exactly resting in peace.
This touches off a string of unbelievably gruesome and hysterically funny events, including Henrietta's transformation into a stop-motion creature reminiscent of a Ray Harryhausen creationEd's sudden metamorphosis into a toothy, levitating ghoul, and Ash's climactic confrontation with the forest demon itself.
The obvious glee with which Raimi and company present this cavalcade of slime-drenched monstrosities and Three Stooges pratfalls makes it impossible to take seriously as a horror film, but Evil Dead 2 is nevertheless essential viewing among connoisseurs of truly demented cinema.


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Concrete Shield Coatings provides high-quality concrete floor coatings, repairs, and sealing services to residential and commercial clients in Chicagoland. Our concrete epoxy coatings will protect and beautify garage floors, basements and outdoor pool areas. They can also be used to cover walkways and driveways. We also work with metallic and polyurea concrete finishes.
Northbrook is a suburb of Chicago, located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, United States, on the border of Lake County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 35,222.When incorporated in 1901, the village was known as Shermerville in honor of Frederick Schermer, who donated the land for its first train station. The village changed its name to Northbrook in 1923 as an effort to improve its public image. The name was chosen because the West Fork of the North Branch of the Chicago River runs through the village.Glenbrook North High School, founded in 1952 as Glenbrook High School, is located in Northbrook. The village is also home to the Northbrook Park District, the Northbrook Court shopping mall, the Ed Rudolph Velodrome, the Chicago Curling Club, and the Northbrook Public Library.
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Using genuine Hendrix gear and cutting-edge modeling technology, IK Multimedia, in collaboration with Authentic Hendrix, LLC, has developed AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix, an app that lets users tap into Jimi's signature sounds right from their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices.
The app is a multi-FX processor and recording studio that provides instant access to incredibly accurate digital models of Hendrix's gear. In addition, there are presets in discography format, so users can dial in the tone from specific Hendrix songs.
With a guitar plugged into an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad through an interface such as IK's iRig or iRig STOMP, users can dial up spot-on emulations of the gear that Hendrix used. The AmpliTube Jimi Hendrix app can also be integrated into live rigs.
The app offers four stompbox effects that are modeled from authentic Hendrix pedals: Uni-V (model based on Univox Uni-Vibe), Octa-V (model based on the Roger Mayer Octavia), Fuzz Age (based on the Arbiter Fuzz Face), and Wah 46 (model based on the Vox V846 wah), which is unlocked after registration.
Users can choose between two guitar amps, JH GOLD (based on the Marshall JTM45) and JH DUAL (based on the Fender Dual Showman). Each has its own matching cabinet.You also get to choose either a condenser or dynamic mic on the speaker cabinet.
For more information, visit the IK Multimedia website.


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Determining your career goals and interests will keep you from wasting your GI Bill and Tuition Assistance benefits on a degree that doesn't match your career path.
In today's job market the type of degree can make all the difference, especially if you are hoping to land one of the current "Hot Jobs" listed below.
You have two main career choices: you can stick with a civilian version of your military career field or venture out into a new career path. If you elect the former, you may need help translating your military occupation into a civilian job. Military.com's online skills translator matches civilian jobs to your military occupation and training. The translator also features estimates on salaries, training required, and upward mobility.Choosing a new career path isn't a bad option either. In fact, your military training and experience may qualify you for a wide range of civilian careers you haven't considered. Many military specialties give servicemembers experience in human resource management, office administration, maintenance, data entry, and computer software engineering. This means that you might be able to pick and choose the civilian career field that best suits you and your goals.
Career counselors and education service officers using a career assessment can help you find the career that matches your skills and interests, which will help make your search more effective. Active duty and Reserve servicemembers can contact their local education service office or career counselor for details. In addition, veterans can get this counseling and employment assistance through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
If job security and good pay are important to you, then a good place to start is this "Hot Jobs" list. The following is the Department of Labor's forecast of the fastest growing and highest paying jobs through 2014:
To learn more and find jobs in these and other career fields visit the Military.com Career Center.
Your next step is to select the degree that matches your career goals and offers the flexibility you need.
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Save Law, Government and Community Service High School
The NYC Dept. of Education is trying to close Law, Government and Community Service High School. Parents, students, staff and community members are opposed to the closing. Our school has served its students and the community faithfully and well for almost two decades. The DOE's attempt to close our school is politically motivated and it comes on the heels of years of dwindling resources and support on the DOE's part. Sign this petition to tell the DOE to take Law and Government off the closure list and give us the resources and support we need to continue our mission to serve students. Please come out in person as well to support us at our public hearing on Wednesday, February 13th at 6:00 at the Campus Magnet Complex located at 207-01 116th Ave.


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Pictured (starting at top right): Flax cracker with cream cheese and fresh dill, Swiss/pastrami rolls-ups, cherry tomatoes, green olives, fresh parsley, Havarti cheese, Dill kosher baby dill, String cheese.
It is summer. You're traveling. You're hungry. You're in a time pinch and you're not sure what to take on the airplane or your car while you're on the road. Sometimes visualization is the key to healthful eating. Most of the items above can be packed in a lunch, can go on the airplane with you, or can survive a car trip to a summer destination. They're not only convenient and oh so prittay, but they're a valuable asset to preparedness (and keeping you out of a bag of red twisty licorice).
Flax cracker with cream cheese and fresh dill: One of my perennial favorites and chock full of fiber, these are so easy to prepare in advance and have ready to go for any occasion. Just soften cream cheese (or, better yet, if you don't keep fresh dill laying around), add a bit of dill to the cream cheese and stir, pre-spread.
Flax gives you omega-3's, and due to its extremely high-fiber content, you're looking at 0-net carbohydrates for each cracker. This isn't license to go nuts, however. Too much flax has a very uncomfortable effect digestively.
Swiss and Pastrami roll-ups: These not only look pretty, but because all of the carbs are in the holes of the cheese (I know! I'm very scientificy), you're looking at only 1 carb for each roll-up. Protein and fat in the meat has staying power, along with the fat in the cheese, and you're providing yourself with calcium to keep your bones strong. You can add lettuce to the center, but sprouts will not disappoint.
Cherry tomatoes: I love cherry tomatoes and eat them like little apples. I used to put them in my cheeks (facial, thanks) and squish my hands to my face just to feel them sploosh into my mouth. (Note: Stop trying this when you're using your laptop). Grape tomatoes are a new variety and are easy to carry.
Green olives have a great taste whose pungency helps offset the mildness of the other items on the tray. while pastrami and cheese are spicy/bland, olives give a bit of punch to the palate, and are very easy to transport. Their higher sodium value should be kept in mind, but the best part of olive oil are the actual olives, and their natural fats have staying power along with a flavor punch.
Havarti is a fun cheese. Softer than a cheddar, it is excellent as an accoutrement to tomatoes, or can be softened and spread on your flax cracker. The fat helps this rest in your digestive system for a longer period of time, and the flavor is so wonderfully intense (but not overpowering) that a little of this goes a long way.
Fresh Parsley is fantastic, not only as fiber, but is a breath freshener for the folks out there who don't have their toothbrushes handy.
Pepperoni slices are probably the least healthy portion of a snack, but used as makeshift crackers, these can cradle individual slices of smaller-cut cheese or the Havarti. The fat and protein definitely sticks with a body for the entire day, but the sodium and additives can be problematic for some. Still, extremely portable, only 16 slices as a serving is more than enough to zip your bip and fill your stomach.
Baby Kosher Dill Pickles are a great portable snack that hold up well under various weather and temperature situations. Many claim that dill pickles help satisfy a sweet tooth, and their flavor make one enough, especially considering that pickles can add up in carbohydrates rather quickly. If you are on a candida diet, you might want to avoid these, as they are treated with vinegar and can exacerbate any conditions you're trying to avoid.
String Cheese— Happiness and entertainment in a single serve packet, loaded with calcium and fat, these are a fun snack to have along for the ride. Kids love peeling the layers. Make certain to buy full-fat, or these turn to sugar in the blood stream more quickly than would be convenient for the busy traveler. If you follow South Beach or another low-fat plan, buying the low-fat versions will be in your best interest, unless you can spare the fat in your daily allowance.
Other snack choices:
Macadamia nuts
Fresh mushrooms
Oopsie rolls (with sandwich spreads)
Hard-boiled eggs
While liquids aren't allowed on airplanes, bottles of water, partially frozen before a car trip will not only help keep vittles cold, they'll provide refreshing libation (drinky enjoyment) on the road.
Make sure to recycle those bottles, eat smart, and have a healthy trip.


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31 December 2011
Poppy King, Lipstick Queen, at Target
I do adore Lipstick Queen. So, I was utterly thrilled to find that Poppy King (Lipstick Queen founder) has done a line of glosses and lipsticks for Boots No7 brand, which is currently being sold through Target. I immediately snapped up the lip gloss in "History"(the tube on the far left). The gloss is lovely on, silky smooth and glossy, much less sticky than my Lipstick Queen pot of Shine gloss in black tie. The consistency on the lips, and color actually, is somewhat similar to Medieval. I was surprised by the faintness of the color...I suppose I am used to wearing Lipstick Queen Sinner lipstick which is 90% pigment, so my expectations were probably off.
Labels: beauty
10 October 2011
Technical Difficulties
28 September 2010
I've Moved
Hello Readers!
I've moved off blogspot hosting. All your bookmarks and links should still work because I've kept the domain chicandcharming.com, as it was here. However, the RSS feed is being a bit tricky! If you are receiving this message, you might need to resubscribe to my blog by following this link:
20 September 2010
Rationalizing Frivolous Antiques
This weekend hubby and I galavanted about the the region, checking out many cute local towns in Maryland and Virginia. In one particularly cute town, in one particularly cute store, we ran across a seven-foot-tall card catalog. Now, I've been obsessed with card catalogs for at least ten years. In fact, I already own one, comparatively small, card catalog that doubles as a TV stand and storage for my ostrich feathers, sequins, individually sized appetizer spoons and cocktail napkin collection. However, it pales in comparison to the magnificence of this latest specimen. Unfortunately, for all my frivolity, I do have a solid streak of practicality, like river of hot fudge in my otherwise whipped-creamy shopping self-discipline. Also much like hot fudge piled on top of whipped cream, which we can all acknowledge is generally a good thing, my practicality slowly seeps through and melts away the joy and the flimsy (yet fun) support for making such a purchase. Where am I going to put a seven-foot-tall card catalog in my one-bedroom apartment? Why would I spend almost 2K on a card catalog, when what I desperately need is a dining room table? Well, how about because it is totally awesome and when am I ever going to find a card catalog large enough to organize all of my craft supplies, or perhaps all of my accessories, again? Never! Imagine: a drawer for sunglasses, another for driving gloves, a third for compact mirrors and perfume atomizers. How divine! What is a girl to do?
Labels: decor
11 September 2010
Parasol Protectorate Book Series
I would really recommend this series to those of you out there that like supernatural romances with a feisty heroine. Alexia, said heroine, has the interesting ability to neutralize the supernatural, but more importantly she is a total badass. As much as I love Twilight and True Blood, its so nice for the female lead to be incredibly strong willed, self-sufficient and intelligent.
For those of your out there that love steamy romance scenes, the first book in the series delivers with a red hot love affair, but, sadly, the heat seems to peter off as the series continues. I'm not saying that the lusty love scenes disappear in subsequent novels, they are just briefer and fewer.
Finally, one of my favorite elements of the series is the Victorian era setting with a steampunk twist. For those of you unfamiliar:
"Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes fictional works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used, usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain. It has prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy; and it often features anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them." -WikipediaPersonally, I've always kind of loved the look of steampunk, which I first became acquainted with through etsy. The Parasol Protectorate Book Series is my first foray into steam punk literature (discounting, of course, the classic novels that inspired the subgenre - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells). I think I might follow up by checking out some other steampunk books.
Labels: charm school, charming reads
31 August 2010
My Christina Crush Continues....
"People have been saying some nice, wonderful things about me. Yet not one designer in town will loan me a dress, they only lend out a size 0 or 2. So I'm still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress."-Christina Hendricks
Personally, I would live to see Christina in something that makes her look beautiful without making her beautiful bosom look like giant inflatable balloons mysteriously floating up, up and away. It's almost like the top is always a little too small.
Labels: chic and stylish, chic women, mad men
29 August 2010
Sookie got side boob
Labels: chic women
28 August 2010
Yum Yum Apples
I personally cannot ever remember which apples to use to cook with or which apples to eat raw. I have no idea which apples are sweet and which apples are tart. Problem solved! Check out this nifty little chart.
Labels: charm school, food
15 August 2010
Shopping my Favorite Blogs
Scrolling through my blog reader this afternoon I found my myself desperately wanting to buy just about everything I saw. SO many fabulous things to buy, here are a few:
Ceramic Farmers Market Baskets via Black.White.Yellow
F. Scott Fitzgerald Penguin Classics...coming soon! via Lobster and Swan
Love this pink chair. I would use it at a vanity. Via Design*Sponge
Map and Planner Book via Black.White.Yellow
Dwell Studio patterned ceramic tiles via AphroChic
Labels: chic and stylish, decor, link love
14 August 2010
29 July 2010
Project Runway is Back
Do you still watch Project Runway? I have to admit that my interest has been waning. I think I was most into the show in 2008 due in large part to my obsession with Leanne Marshall, who I was a fan of long before the show through her etsy shop. The new season starts tonight at 9 pm. This might be my last season as PR follower, we'll have to see what kind of charcters turn up and if Michael and Nina are around for at least half the season.
Labels: chic and stylish, tv
DIY Minx at Sephora
As you all know, I've been obsessed with minx manicures for some time (thanks in large part to Wendy B). I recently discovered that Sephora has come out with a kit that allows you to do a minx manicure at home. While I am totally psyched to be able to give myself crazy-cool at home manicures, I am disappointed that the Sephora minx lasts 1-2 days while the salon minx lasts 1-2 weeks. A salon minx manicure runs $55, and the at home minx kit is about $15. I think I;ll stick with the salon version.
Labels: chic and stylish, makeup


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The CL600 isn't what you'd drive to an Occupy Wall Street protest—unless you were protesting the protesters. The iconic coupe is big, bold, and bodacious, a rolling reminiscence of more grandiose times. It hides its considerable bones in sheetmetal that sweeps and flows seductively. We can imagine Isadora Duncan's scarf trailing out past the pillarless side windows, fluttering over the car's lovely sculpted flanks precariously close to the 10-spoke, 20-inch rear wheels (a $1270 upcharge on this $177,785 chariot).
Big Is Beautiful
The four-seater is selfish and unapologetic in its largess. How large? This coupe version of Mercedes' S-class flagship, nose to tail, spans within half a pinky's length of a Cadillac Escalade and is broader of beam than a basic Toyota Tacoma yet offers less cabin space than does the Kia Cadenza. No matter, really, as what space exists looks, and feels, like money. Our test car was equipped with the $7050 Designo Espresso Edition package with a suede headliner, heated wood-and-leather steering wheel, and extra-buttery Sand leather upholstery. What few items weren't covered in hand-stitched hides on the dash, doors and console were either piano black or freshly quarried granite, courtesy of the $2650 Designo Star Galaxy Stone trim package.
A full suite of standard electronic aids such as active blind-spot assist, active lane-keeping assist, Attention Assist, and more guide the driver and might come in handy for Lady Chatterley as she speeds to a noontime liaison. Our test car was also equipped with the $710 Splitview infotainment screen, which allows the driver to check, say, a navigation map while the front passenger watches Gone with the Wind or another favorite selection on the same screen—at the same time.
Wobbles and Wiggles
We were less impressed with the technology in the CL600's active-body-control suspension. The ABC system did a fine job of damping body roll, dive, and squat, but there was too much side-to-side wiggle, head toss, and steering-column movement for our taste. Bumps sent little ripples and shimmies through the cabin—and we're sure we had the car's massaging seats turned off. Likewise, the CL600's steering was fairy-godmother light and not especially communicative. And the car's meaty ContiSportContact 2 tires had an annoying tendency to follow road grooves.
If the around-town driving revealed a few ruffled edges, our CL600 test car exceeded expectations at the test track. The big Benz circled our 300-foot skidpad at 0.88 g, besting the Bentley Continental GT W-12 coupe and coming within 0.01 g of the CL600's AMG-tuned CL65 sibling. Likewise, the CL600's as-tested 163-foot 70-to-0 braking performance outstopped the CL65's by six feet.
We were particularly smitten with the CL600's 510-hp twin-turbo V-12 engine. In an age of downsizing, the V-12 is a sensory delight which makes us all the more pleased that the company has told us it plans to be the last firm building 12-holers. Although a little touchy at tip-in, opening up the throttle on the CL600 is like flipping the switch on a nuclear reactor. The V-12 has a warp-engine sound and a turbine zeal that are way beyond the déclassé rumble of a mere V-8.
Turbine Fast
Even though our CL600 tipped the scales at a hefty 4791 pounds, the car shined in acceleration testing. The CL600's 4.2-second 0-to-60 performance trumped Mercedes' estimate by 0.3 second and, even more impressive, bettered the 111-hp more-powerful CL65 AMG's 4.5-second time. (The two CLs legged through the quarter-mile in the same 12.6 seconds.) All of it, we might add, while looking fabulous.
Having outlived just about all of its big-coupe competitors, the Mercedes-Benz CL600 is a dowager princess crafted of sheetmetal and leather and attitude. And with the next-generation model arriving next year—when it will adopt S-class coupe nomenclature—we see no sign its reign will end anytime soon.


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Length: 90 minutes
Prerequisites: None.
I explain what typing is about, and why you might want it. I talk about the history of compile-time (static) type checking, and show some examples from FORTRAN (which does do it) and Lisp (which doesn't.) Then I show types in the ALGOL-derived languages, Pascal and C, and how they tried to extend static checking to aggregate types. I show that this has not worked well.
Since type checking in C and Pascal is a failure (and I have a big fit about this and foam at the mouth so that nobody dares disagree) there are two directions to go. You can give up on it, and many succesful langauges like Lisp, APL, Awk, and Perl do give up. This leads a lot of people to conclude that static type checking is a bad idea that has been abandoned.
But actually that's not so; it just shows that the inferior implementation in C and Pascal is a bad idea. Since C and Pascal were designed in the late 1960's, the state of the art has advanced, and languages like ML and Haskell have really good type systems.
I then spend about an hour showing examples of the ML type system. The big benefits here are: The type system is very fine-grained and flexible, so that there are many many types and you can be very specific about what type a certain value has. Types are deduced automatically by the compiler, so you don't need to declare them. Instead, you just write your code, and you look at the declarations that the compiler prints out and see if they were what you expected. If not, then your program almost certainly has a serious bug.
Finally, I talk about the possibility of adding good static type checking to Perl, and conclude that it's a lost cause because one of the essential features of Perl is that it automatically converts values from one type to another, which defeats the possibility of checking. I talk about the various hacks for run-time type checking in Perl, including strict 'refs' and the -w flag, and also some upcoming features for static type checking.
In addition to the slides, a complete writeup article is available.
Atypical Typing, a revised version of this talk, written for OOPSLA in 2008.
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Letters... I get lots and lots of letters... I *LOVE* to get email. If this pages sounds a little impersonal, I'm sorry. I just want to keep it brief enough that people might take a moment to look it over.
If you have a question about pop culture in general, I really recommend you use the In The 00s Messageboard to post your question. The messageboard is also a great place to talk about anything in general. I prefer you use the messageboard for trivia questions because you're more likely to get a response. I get buried in email with info about the sites, and I don't always get a chance to respond to messages. This way, you're almost assured a response from me or someone else.
Finally... my email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. I do not respond to telephone calls about the website or from recruiters without prior arrangment via email.


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STOCKWELL ROAD isn't the most exciting and handsome of roads. It may have been once, but the Luftwaffe and the subsequent, typical unimaginative post-war redevelopment put paid to that. It's got a skateboard park, if that's your thing, and David Bowie was born in a road just off it, but even he moved to Bromley when he was six. And that's about it, to most people, even if they live there, it's just a road that joins up Stockwell and Brixton.
If you walk towards the Brixton end, however, and you stop and look carefully at the end of a terrace, you can see a tiny bit of maroon-ish red paint showing through some peeling cream emulsion. It's the remnants of a lot of red paint and a clue that in the winter of 1966 this road made a glamorous appearance, alongside David Hemmings, the model Veruschka, and Vanessa Redgrave, in THE swinging Sixties film – Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up. It was the Italian director's first film in English (he had just signed a lucrative deal to make three English-language pictures for Italian producer Carlo Ponti), and it was David Hemmings' first major film role.
On stage, however, Hemmings had already been a star, of sorts. In 1954, thirteen years before Blow-Up was released, a twelve-year-old Hemmings had appeared, as a boy soprano, in Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw. To prepare for the role of Miles, in the as yet uncompleted opera, Hemmings had left school and his home in Tolworth, a southwest suburb of London, and had gone to live with Benjamin Britten at Crag House in Aldeburgh in Suffolk. 'It was one of the most wonderful times of my entire life' Hemmings once remembered: 'we all gathered round the piano – Peter Pears, Jennifer Vyvyan, Joan Cross, Arda Mandikian, Olive Dyer and me … He really constructed the opera round our voices.' Hemmings throughout his life never wavered from saying that Britten's conduct with him was beyond reproach, at all times. In John Bridcut's Britten's Children Hemmings says:
He was not only a father to me, but a friend – and you couldn't have had a better father, or a better friend. He was generous and kind, and I was very lucky. I loved him dearly, I really did – I absolutely adored him. I didn't fancy him, I did go to bed with him, but I didn't go to bed with him in that way.
Just five weeks after Britten had completed the opera the British premiere took place on 6 October 1954 with the Sadler's Wells Opera. It took place against a backdrop of increasing police antipathy to homosexuality. A situation not helped by the fervently anti-homosexual and moralistic Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. Three years previously, in 1951, the defection to the Soviet Union of Guy Burgess, who was as close to openly gay as you could be in those days, and the (almost certainly) bisexual Donald Maclean had also stoked up public hostility.
Prosecutions for 'gross indecency' were increasing and there had been several highly publicised arrests, such as Lord Montagu and John Gielgud. Britten was also interviewed by police officers in 1953 – he had been at school with Maclean and one of Guy Burgess's boyfriends had lived at Britten's Hallam Street flat in the 1940s – but nothing came of it. At one point, however, Britten discussed the possibility that his partner Peter Pears might have to enter into a sham marriage.
The end of Hemmings' opera career with Britten came to a particularly abrupt end. The English Opera Group had taken The Turn of the Screw to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. It was 1956 and Hemmings was now fifteen. In the middle of Miles' main aria, 'Malo', Hemming's voice suddenly broke. Britten was utterly horrified and stopped the orchestra immediately. He waved his baton in anger at the now ex-soprano, and the curtain slowly lowered. Britten did not speak to, or even acknowledge Hemmings ever again.
Ten years later Antonioni chose Hemmings for the role in Blow-Up because he wanted a fresh young actor who had no self-conscious acting style. The Italian director detested 'Method' acting, and in The Passenger, filmed in London in 1974 and the third of Ponti's English language films, Antonioni kept on saying to Nicholson, 'Jack, less twitching'. Antonioni once said: 'Actors feel somewhat uncomfortable with me. They have the feeling that they've been excluded from my work. And, as a matter of fact, they have been.' He first saw Hemmings act in an adaptation of Dylan Thomas's Adventures in the Skin Trade, at a small theatre in Hampstead. A few days later, at the first audition for Blow-Up held at the Savoy hotel, and before the young actor had said a word, Antonioni told Hemmings, 'you look wrong. You're too young.' Hemmings replied 'Oh no. I can look older. I've done it before. You can trust me on this. I am an actor.'
After one more audition, Antonioni did trust him, and Hemmings went on to play his most famous role – the 'swinging', hip fashion photographer, who discovers by accident that some photos he took seem to reveal a murder. The character was purposely based on David Bailey who in the mid-sixties was at the height of his fame. Even a scene where Hemmings buys a large old propellor in a junk shop was based on Bailey doing exactly that. At eight quid they even got the price right, much to Bailey's shock when he was watching the film in New York with his new wife, Catherine Deneuve. Bailey was once asked whether his photo sessions ever got as sexy as the one between Hemmings and Veruschka. 'When I was lucky,' he replied.
The shoot for the film began in April 1966 and wherever the filmmakers went they left their mark on London. Antonioni thought the roads were a bit grey in Woolwich and had them painted black, and it was said that even pigeons were dyed so they were just the right sort of pigeons. The Rolls-Royce, once owned by Jimmy Savile, was originally white and the director had that re-sprayed to black. Antonioni once talked of his fastidious attention to detail: 'When I was making Blow-Up there was a lot of discussion about the fact that I had a road and a building painted. Antonioni paints the grass, people said. To some degree, all directors paint and arrange or change things on a location, and it amused me that so much was made of it in my case.'
Most people thought that Antonioni was only up to his old particular ways when they watched Hemmings drive his Rolls Royce down a long terrace of Victorian and Edwardian buildings, all painted entirely red. The buildings, however, really were that colour and were made up of dozens of properties all owned by the motorcycle spares company, Pride and Clarke, and every one painted red.
The company was founded in 1920 by John Pride and Alfred Clarke and was based on the Stockwell Road for over sixty years. In its heyday the showrooms of 'Snide and Shark', as they were occasionally called, took up a huge stretch of the road and if the Guinness Book of records had ever been interested in motorbike spares' counters, they would have featured Pride and Clarke's because it was the longest in the world. With about 2000 new motorbikes on display plus a good selection of traded-in second hand machines in their showrooms, on a Saturday afternoon, around the time Blow-Up was being made, thousands of bikers from all over the country would congregate outside the bright-red Pride and Clarke shopfronts.
The contemporary press releases for Blow-Up made sure that attention was made to 'the swinging world of fashion, dolly girls, pop groups, beat clubs, models and parties' and one of the best lines in the film is when David Hemmings says to Veruschka at a party: 'I thought you were meant to be in Paris!' to which she stonily replies, 'I am in Paris.' The 26-year-old Veruschka, or Countess Vera Gottliebe Anna Gräfin von Lehndorff-Steinort, to give her full name, was an extremely tall German model, born just before the start of the war in East Pussia. Her father was said to have fainted when the extraordinarily long baby was born, but Veruschka hardly got to know him, as he was executed five years later for his part in the July Assassination Plot against Hitler in 1944. Around the time the film was released she told the press that she now wanted to be a proper actress: 'I should like now to go into the movies,' she said 'but it is difficult – the men are so small.' The experience of working with Hemmings must have scarred; he was eight or nine inches shorter than her six feet four.
The party scene was shot in a house next to the Thames on Cheyne Walk. Owned by the designer Christopher Gibbs, it was full of Moroccan cushions and medieval tapestries. Antonioni paid beautiful people to be extras at £30 each (easily over an average week's wage in 1966), [6] essentially just to get trashed. Paul McCartney once said, 'I remember the word around town was "There's this guy who's paying money for people to come and get stoned at some place in Chelsea. And of course in our crowd that spread like wildfire…Everyone was being paid, like blood donors, to smoke pot."'
Kieran Fogarty, in Jonathan Green's Days In The Life, remembered the filming of the party scene in Blow-Up: 'I was flung into this bedroom in Cheyne walk…plonked on the front of this bed with about another nine people on it and Antonioni tossed a couple of kilo bags of grass on the bed and said, "Right, get on with it." It took five days. It just went on and on…people would stumble out going "Yeeeaahhh" and go gibbering back. Most of swinging London was there, every deb that was halfway decent looking, and wild they were too. Outrageously dressed, superheavy make-up …'
One of the reasons the party scene took so long to film was that Veruschka, most of the time, really was in Paris. She would phone the house every few hours saying 'Tell Michelangelo that my taxi crash …'. Whoever picked up the phone would wander around the house saying 'It's Veruschka! Her taxi's crashed, she'll be here in five or six hours'. Despite the camera running for almost a week, the scene at the party ended up just 30 seconds long.
Michelangelo Antonioni, who in 1960 won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes with his film L'Avventura, wrote an article in that year's December edition of Films and Filming entitled: Eroticism – The Disease of Our Age. He asked 'Why are literature and the entertainment arts so thick with eroticism today? It is the more obvious symptom of an emotional sickness.' Six years later, after deciding to take no notice of himself whatsoever, Blow-Up became known as the first British mainstream film to show pubic hair, not to mention naked teenage models (including the 19 year old wife of John Barry, Jane Birkin). Not that anyone noticed particularly, as all around the country the public were treated to a 'censored' version of the film, not because the British Board of Film Censors or the local authorities were trying to protect the public's morals, but because the brief moments of nudity, in those more sheltered days, were being trimmed out by projectionists to add to their private collections.
The film was released in March 1967, just as most people, especially in the capital, were getting rather bored with the idea of 'swinging London'. The result of which was mostly bad reviews from the critics in Britain – Peter Evans in the Daily Express, after describing Hemmings, aptly, as 'a depraved choirboy,' wrote: 'What many people believed was to be some kind of tribute to the vibrant pace-setters turns out to be no less than an epitaph.' He finished by describing the film as: 'an unpleasant orgy of self-glorification.'
In Europe and America it was often a different story. Richard Schickel in Life magazine wrote: 'This movie seems to me one of the finest, most intelligent, least hysterical expositions of the modern existential agony we have yet had on film'. Most of the contemporary reviews talked about the nudity, but none about how Hemmings' photographer treated the women he encountered. Much of it uncomfortable to watch these days. But it is an enjoyable museum piece that, at least, gives us a good glimpse of groovy sixties London from the eye of an outsider. Additionally, if you want to stop the film at the right moments, you can see, briefly, Michael Palin and a young Janet Street Porter dancing in stripy Carnaby Street trousers during the the Yardbirds nightclub scene.
Four months after Blow-Up was premiered at the London Pavilion, The Sexual Offences Act was made law in July 1967. It decriminalised homosexual acts in private between two men, both of whom had to have attained the age of 21. Although the comments of Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary at the time, captured the government's attitude: 'those who suffer from this disability carry a great weight of shame all their lives.' Lord Arran, one of the original proposers of the bill, tried to minimise criticisms by making the qualification to what he called an 'historic' milestone: 'I ask those [homosexuals] to show their thanks by comporting themselves quietly and with dignity … any form of ostentatious behaviour now or in the future or any form of public flaunting would be utterly distasteful …'
A few years later the motorcycle business started to change and during the seventies Japanese motorcycle companies such as Suzuki, Honda and Kawasaki took over from the old British and European marques. Alfred Clarke was an astute businessman (the nickname 'shark' wasn't gained for nothing) and the Pride and Clarke firm was sold to Inchcape for about £3 million pounds in 1979.
Before the company and the red paint were whitewashed from history, however, the striking red buildings of the Pride and Clarke showrooms had one more brush with fame. In 1977, the former Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar was in London to record his second solo album at Abbey Road. Known to his fans, but to no one else, as the 'Red Rocker', someone at Capitol Records had the bright idea that the Pride and Clarke shops on the Stockwell Road were perfect for the cover of the so called Red Album. So as not to look too downmarket, he was told to stand next to an expensive American car, also coloured red. There is no record of what Sammy Hagar made of the Stockwell Road and there's no record left of the ubiquitous Pride and Clarke shops. Unless you look very, very closely.


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Arkansas Tornadoes Add to Possible April Record
Deadly storms, including reported tornadoes, pounded Arkansas yesterday (April 25), adding to what is likely to be a record tornado count for the month of April.
Four deaths in Arkansas were reported from the severe storms yesterday. If those deaths are attributed to tornadoes, the first four months of 2011 will have matched the tornado death toll for all of last year. These intense storms are not letting up today; they're reloading and sweeping across the Midwest and Southeast. [In Images: The Tornado Damage Scale]
Tornado reports have been pouring into the nation's Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., and by the time the month comes to an end, it is likely to have set a new April maximum, said the SPC's Greg Carbin. [Infographic: Tornado! An Inside Look at Tornado Season]
The Weather Channel has reported the confirmation of 292 tornadoes in the United States so far this month, besting the previous April record of 267 in 1974. Storm survey teams continue to assess the damage from this month's storms and could change the number of confirmed tornadoes. The average for April is only 116, according to the SPC.
Remember '74
Counts of tornadoes and tornado damage today are higher than ever due to more people reporting tornadoes, and more buildings being hit as the country's population grows and its cities and towns expand. Storm chaser videos of funnel clouds are posted daily to YouTube, and rarely does a small tornado go unnoticed anymore.
Carbin said that if April 1974 were adjusted to account for unreported tornadoes, an extra hundred or so could be added to its total.
Even so, this current April could be a record-breaker.
"It's a big month, there's no question about it," Carbin told OurAmazingPlanet.
Along with amazing videos of twin and even triplet tornadoes have come new tornado records in several states.
In North Carolina, 28 tornadoes have been confirmed for April 16, a record outbreak for any single day there.
In Wisconsin, 14 tornadoes struck on April 10, the biggest outbreak for any April day in the state's history.
Yet none of these outbreaks comes close to matching the "granddaddy of them all," as Carbin called it — the "Super Outbreak" of April 3-4, 1974, when more than 148 tornadoes were confirmed and 330 people were killed.
Deadly spring
Tornadoes have killed 41 people this year, most of them in mobile homes. The Arkansas deaths could push the total to 45, matching the death toll for all of last year.
North Carolina has suffered the most this year, with 26 deaths, all from a single April outbreak. That was the deadliest outbreak in the state since the "Super Tuesday" storms of February 2008, when 57 people died in Dixie Alley, the southeastern extension of Tornado Alley.
In 2008, during a season among the all-time highest for number of tornadoes, 126 people were killed. As staggering as these death tolls are, they've been dramatically reduced in recent years due to better forecasting and warnings.
Mike Smith, chief executive officer of Weather Data Services, a part of AccuWeather, believes that at least 100 lives were saved by the warnings before a massive EF-4 tornado — the strongest of the year so far — struck near St. Louis on Good Friday (April 22).
Severe weather reloading
This spring's severe weather seems to be rapidly reloading between storms. That could be due to a lingering La Niña — the opposite phase of El Niño — when the equatorial waters of the Pacific Ocean are abnormally cool, said Grady Dixon, a climatologist and meteorologist at Mississippi State University in Starkville.
Along with creating dry weather in the Southwest, contributing to the historic wildfires in Texas, La Niña tends to guide the jet stream north through the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes, trapping cold air on the northern side and the warm, humid air needed for thunderstorms on the southern side.
"This setup means that the southern U.S. experiences ample moisture without many cold fronts sweeping through to dry out the atmosphere." Dixon said. "This allows rapid recharge in between severe events."
Not all La Niña events are associated with highly active severe weather seasons, Dixon said, but some years with similar La Niña characteristics are also historic tornado years, including 1974, 1999 ? which saw an EF-5 tornado devastate Moore, Okla. ? and 2008.
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In 1970, Masahiro Mori proposed the theory of the Uncanny Valley, which states that
"when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers."
English translations (like the above linked Wikipedia article) depict Mori's Uncanny Valley in graph form as a function of human likeness
versus familiarity
, which is an odd term to use, as a low familiarity
would not be expected to cause revulsion in the common use of the word.
In his original article, Mori used the term 親和感. I have translated 親和 to friendship, fellowship
according to Denshi Jisjo and 感 seems to mean sense of
However, sense of friendship
still doesn't seem like a particularly adequate translation. I am wondering if there are any other interpretations/translations of the term that Mori could have had in mind.


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Virtual Hosting¶
"Virtual hosting" is, loosely, the act of serving a Pyramid application or a portion of a Pyramid application under a URL space that it does not "naturally" inhabit.
Pyramid provides facilities for serving an application under a URL "prefix", as well as serving a portion of a traversal based application under a root URL.
Hosting an Application Under a URL Prefix¶
Pyramid supports a common form of virtual hosting whereby you
can host a Pyramid application as a "subset" of some other site
(e.g. under http://example.com/mypyramidapplication/
as opposed to
under http://example.com/
If you use a "pure Python" environment, this functionality can be provided by Paste's urlmap "composite" WSGI application. Alternately, you can use mod_wsgi to serve your application, which handles this virtual hosting translation for you "under the hood".
If you use the urlmap
composite application "in front" of a
Pyramid application or if you use mod_wsgi to serve
up a Pyramid application, nothing special needs to be done
within the application for URLs to be generated that contain a
prefix. paste.urlmap
and mod_wsgi manipulate the
WSGI environment in such a way that the PATH_INFO
variables are correct for some given prefix.
Here's an example of a PasteDeploy configuration snippet that includes
a urlmap
1 2 3 4 5 6 | [app:mypyramidapp]
use = egg:mypyramidapp
use = egg:Paste#urlmap
/pyramidapp = mypyramidapp
This "roots" the Pyramid application at the prefix
and serves up the composite as the "main" application
in the file.
If you're using an Apache server to proxy to a Paste
composite, you may have to use the ProxyPreserveHost
directive to pass the original HTTP_HOST
header along to the
application, so URLs get generated properly. As of this writing
the urlmap
composite does not seem to respect the
parameter, which will contain the
original host header even if HTTP_HOST
is incorrect.
If you use mod_wsgi, you do not need to use a composite
application in your .ini
file. The WSGIScriptAlias
configuration setting in a mod_wsgi configuration does the
work for you:
1 | WSGIScriptAlias /pyramidapp /Users/chrism/projects/modwsgi/env/pyramid.wsgi
In the above configuration, we root a Pyramid application at
within the Apache configuration.
Virtual Root Support¶
Pyramid also supports "virtual roots", which can be used in traversal -based (but not URL dispatch -based) applications.
Virtual root support is useful when you'd like to host some resource in a
Pyramid resource tree as an application under a URL pathname that does
not include the resource path itself. For example, you might want to serve the
object at the traversal path /cms
as an application reachable via
(as opposed to http://example.com/cms
To specify a virtual root, cause an environment variable to be inserted into
the WSGI environ named HTTP_X_VHM_ROOT
with a value that is the absolute
pathname to the resource object in the resource tree that should behave as
the "root" resource. As a result, the traversal machinery will respect this
value during traversal (prepending it to the PATH_INFO before traversal
starts), and the pyramid.request.Request.resource_url()
API will
generate the "correct" virtually-rooted URLs.
An example of an Apache mod_proxy
configuration that will host the
subobject as http://www.example.com/
using this facility
is below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:6543/$1 [L,P]
ProxyPreserveHost on
RequestHeader add X-Vhm-Root /cms
Use of the RequestHeader
directive requires that the
Apache mod_headers module be
available in the Apache environment you're using.
For a Pyramid application running under mod_wsgi,
the same can be achieved using SetEnv
1 2 3 | <Location />
SetEnv HTTP_X_VHM_ROOT /cms
Setting a virtual root has no effect when using an application based on URL dispatch.
Further Documentation and Examples¶
The API documentation in pyramid.traversal documents a
API. When called, it
returns the virtual root object (or the physical root object if no
virtual root has been specified).
Running a Pyramid Application under mod_wsgi has detailed information about using mod_wsgi to serve Pyramid applications.


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TPWD to Hold Public Meeting to Consider Trout Fishing Regulation Changes for the Guadalupe River
Oct. 8, 2013
Media Contact: Marcos De Jesús, (512) 353-0072, icle__media__contact">Media Contact: Marcos De Jesús, (512) 353-0072, email@example.com
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ATHENS —Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will hold a public meeting to take comments on changes being considered to the trout fishing regulations for the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake Dam.
The public meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 22, 2013, at 7 p.m. at the McKenna Events Center, Meeting Room A; 801 West San Antonio Street, New Braunfels.
Current regulations for rainbow trout and brown trout on the Guadalupe River from the Canyon Lake Dam to the easternmost bridge crossing on FM 306 consist of a five-fish daily bag limit, and trout of any size may be harvested. For the section of the river downstream of the F.M. 306 bridge crossing to the second bridge crossing on the River Road, only trout 18 inches and longer may be harvested, and anglers are allowed to harvest one trout per day. Harvest is further restricted in this area to trout caught on artificial lures.
Downstream of the second bridge crossing on the River Road, harvest regulations for trout revert back to the five-fish daily bag limit with trout of any size legal for harvest.
TPWD is considering changing the regulations in the section of the Guadalupe River extending upstream from the easternmost F.M. 306 bridge crossing to a point 800 yards below the Canyon Lake dam. Harvest regulations would be changed to a 12- to 18-inch slot length limit (only trout smaller than 12 inches or 18 inches and longer may be harvested). Anglers would be allowed to harvest five trout, but only one trout 18 inches or longer could be harvested per day. Any trout harvested would have to be caught on artificial lures. The goal of the changes being considered is to increase survival of trout in this section of the river where water temperatures are most favorable during the summer months while maintaining the opportunity for harvest of trout smaller than 12 inches.
The popular trout fishing area directly below the dam is not included in the section of river being considered for changes in harvest regulations and would not be affected by this change. Regulations there would remain at a five-fish daily bag limit with no minimum length limit.
Expected benefits from the changes being considered are: 1) increased survival and angler catch of trout in the reach of the river that is most likely to have water temperatures favorable for trout to survive the summer months; and 2) maintain the opportunity for harvest of trout under 12 inches in the proposed regulations zone.
For those unable to attend the public meeting, comments can be directed to Marcos De Jesus, Texas Parks and Wildlife, 505 Staples Road, San Marcos, TX 78666; firstname.lastname@example.com
Rainbow trout have been stocked since 1966 in the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake by TPWD and others through state/federal/private partnerships. Because of coldwater releases from Canyon Lake, water temperature remains suitable (below 70OF) for year-round survival of rainbow trout in most years. These unique habitat conditions laid the foundation for the creation of a popular and economically important trout fishery in this river. TPWD desires to further enhance this unique resource and provide quality fishing experiences for all anglers.
Editors Note: An aerial photograph showing the 800 yard stretch below the Canyon Lake Dam that would NOT be affected by the proposed regulation change can be found at http://www.tpwd.texas.gov/newsmedia/news_images/.


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Dili investigator called to Canberra as evidence of execution mounts
From WikiLeaks
LINDSAY MURDOCH (Sydney Morning Herald)
September 4, 2008
EAST TIMOR'S top prosecutor, Longuinhos Monteiro, is flying to Canberra to be briefed on the investigation into the February 11 dawn attacks in Dili.
Australian Federal Police forensic investigators have deciphered telephone calls that the rebel leader, Alfredo Reinado, made before he was shot dead at the home of East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta.
The investigation led by Mr Monteiro is at a critical impasse. Evidence gathered over the past seven months suggests Reinado may have been set up for execution in a conspiracy that includes at least one of his trusted lieutenants.
Mr Ramos-Horta has confirmed that the man who shot him twice in the back was not Marcelo Caetano, one of Reinado's men, as had been widely reported.
The AFP investigated telephone conversations Reinado had shortly before the attacks with a Timorese-born Jakarta gangster, Hercules Rozario Marcal. The telephone taken from Reinado's body had a listing for "Hercul".
Hercules, who has denied any involvement in the attacks, last month received approval to develop businesses in Dili.
The AFP has also investigated 47 telephone calls Reinado made to or received from Australia.
Potentially explosive developments in the investigation have been kept secret in East Timor, where Reinado was a cult hero.
Authorities fear an outbreak of violence if it becomes known that Reinado was not responsible for shooting the popular president, who received emergency surgery in Darwin.
The official version of events is that Reinado led rebels to the homes of Mr Ramos-Horta and the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, to either assassinate or kidnap them as part of an attempted coup.
Political figures in Dili have dismissed recent media speculation in Australia that Reinado and Mr Ramos-Horta had reached an impasse in negotiations at a meeting they held in the mountain village of Maubisse on January 13. The speculation was based on a tape recording of part of the meeting.
The Herald revealed four days after the attacks that during the meeting Mr Ramos-Horta offered to include Reinado in an amnesty to be announced on May 20, the anniversary of East Timor's independence.
"A deal was essentially done," said Joao Goncalves, the Minister for Economic Development, who was present at the meeting.
The Government in Dili is facing increasing pressure to establish an international inquiry into the attacks as Mr Monteiro has delayed for several months the completion of his investigation.
Jose Teixeira, a spokesman for Fretilin, the Opposition, said any further delay in setting up an international inquiry "ignores the wishes of Timorese who want to know the truth behind the attacks".
Mr Monteiro has denied seeing an autopsy report that was first published on the website Wikileaks purportedly showing that Reinado was shot at almost point-blank range.
First appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. Thanks to Linsay Murdoch and the SMH for covering these documents. Copyright remains with the authors. See http://smh.com.au/ for reprint rights